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I thought I'd give you an update about what's been going on lately. Scientology has been eerily silent, so I'm assuming they want nothing to do with us.

I've purchased two new servers. The first is the new master database server, allowing me to set up the current master as a dedicated slave used for searching. The other is the new dedicated server that will host the new forums and the wiki to take the load off the main web/db servers.

Next on the list is to finish off the new site creation process, which will be packed with new features and some cool goodies. Yes, this includes preview and reserving domains.

Once the dedicated search server is all up I want to upgrade the search to be more flexible. Search by multiple different fields (including image and sound origin!) The new server will obviously allow for more capacity, so you most likely wont see "too many searches in progress".

Hopefully in the near future I will print up a few thousand more shirts and start selling the new design and have more of a real "store".

Take this opportunity to leave me some feedback of what you feel is the most needed new feature or bug fix.

Great Job!!! A YTMND store would be a huge source of revenue, there are people who will buy it ;) It is cool to have seem this website grow over the last year, keep it up and keep the original idea of ytmnd intact

max, have you ever looked into using Coral Cache to lighten the load on the content server? If you offloaded the image and sound of any site on the top 15 onto Coral it'd probably save YTMND some cash.

Awesome. Scientology cooled down. Now all we have to worry about is LiveJasmin. Oh wait, we don't have to worry about them. 2 people have already threatened to sue us, what's a porn site more gonna do?

"max, have you ever looked into using Coral Cache to lighten the load on the content
server? If you offloaded the image and sound of any site on the top 15 onto Coral
it'd probably save YTMND some cash." Smartest idea yet.

Good work, Max, but the thing is, the Wiki is gonna give you more headaches than it's worth. Also, where the hell is the update on the Hall of Shame. The WAR must begin on the dupe account downvoters! Also, would it be so bad to keep people from voting untill they have made at least 1 site? It'd keep the downvoters with no sites quiet. And perhaps they'd put up or shut up.

Sweet. I've noticed that you've made some 'beneath the hood' changes. I would have a small suggestion for the way you're handling /sites/index.html right now so it doesn't just return a null at times..
Thanks for all the hard work, max!

I dunno if this has been suggested yet but can you make a feature that tells the user that if a YTMND has already been viewed?
And a "Last 20 Viewed YTMNDs" type of feature would be cool. Sometimes I run across so many that I forget how to get back to the really funny ones. (I don't add favorites that much : ( )

adverb: yes that's how it was written before your comment. trust me, at this point, 50% of my coding time is figuring out how to abuse the system and then writing in features to keep people from doing it :(

Max: I've got a feature idea.... As we all know, there are plenty fad sites with the EXACT SAME music file; like, 1000's of sites with the exact same music file. What if you added a "Fad Music" option for new sites? It would open a popup or something to allow you to select from all different fad music, and you would have a lot fewer people uploading the same exact sound file & it would save space. also 416th, also cocks.

GO TO f*ckING HELL MAX YOU KILLED MY f*ckING FAMILY IM GONNA f*ckING SHOW YOU WHAT ITS LIKE TO LOSE A FAMILY MEMBER. DONT MESS WITH ME *sshole YOU THINK YOUR SO COOOL CAUSE YOU HAVE A SITE OMG I DONT GIVE AS sh*t. f*ck YOU AND SEE YOU IN f*ckING HELL BITCH f*ckER.

A good idea - Notice how some sites with larger gifs repeated over the page tend to screw up the sound? Perhaps you can devise a method so that people can determine the size of the browser window that their site pops open on, so that the sound will not screw up.

Whats the connection with the title "green onions"? Only thing besides scallions/chives I know is the song "Green Onions"....only connection is that Max heard the song which is currently in a commercial... Can someone bring me up to speed why the thread is named this?

Another suggestion - I absolutely love the 'worthwhile' ytmnd section, it really helps you find funny sites quickly, but I'd like it if you helped out just a bit more and rather than have sites 4 or higher, help people out and make it go from 3.90 or higher. I have some really good ones that are truly worthwhile but not appearing because they're at 3.97 or 3.94.

RE:Post 464- My YTMND was 'Worthwhile', but then a guy who'd voted on it previously came back and downvoted it, changing the average. Now I'm screwed, and I've lost my zest of enthusiasm for YTMND. If anyone's interested, the site was hackupvoter.ytmnd.com. The guy who revised his vote commented before and after, so you'll know who it was (if you care). So, in short, I agree with post #464

"Another suggestion - I absolutely love the 'worthwhile' ytmnd section, it really
helps you find funny sites quickly, but I'd like it if you helped out just a bit more
and rather than have sites 4 or higher, help people out and make it go from 3.90 or
higher. I have some really good ones that are truly worthwhile but not appearing
because they're at 3.97 or 3.94." SHUT YOUR F*CKING MOUTH LOSER!

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"Another suggestion - I absolutely love the 'worthwhile' ytmnd section, it really helps you find funny sites quickly, but I'd like it if you helped out just a bit more and rather than have sites 4 or higher, help people out and make it go from
3.90 or higher. I have some really good ones that are truly worthwhile but not appearing because they're at 3.97 or 3.94." - I have a site at 3.99, yet no bitching from me. Get a life.